CM heme/onc Flashcards
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what are four things that anemia can come from?
- excessive blood loss
- destruction (hemolysis) of RBC
- deficient RBC production because of nuitritional elements
- bone marrow failure
polycythemia
increase in red blood cell count
erythropoietin
hormone that increases production of RBC in response to decreases O2 levels in the tissues, released by the kidneys
erythrocyte characteristics
mature RBC, biconcave disk, no nucleus
what does sideroblastic anemia mean?
term for the failed synthesis of RBC (bone marrow not working correctly)
(thalessemia, sickle cell, idiopathic)
RBC count test
measures the total # of RBC in microliter of blood
percentage of reticulocytes (immature RBC)
an index of the rate of red blood cell production
hematocrit test
percent of RBC in blood by volume. (spin down the reb and divide volume by total volume plus serum)
mean corpuscular volume, MCV
size of RBC, average volume size of the RBC
microcytic, macrocytic, normocytic
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration MCHC
concentration of hemoglobin in EACH cell
color of hemoglobin terms
normochromic, hypochromic, hyperchromic
mean cell hemoglobin (MCH)
average hemoglobin weight/mass in each cell
CBC test
includes:
counts: number of red blood cells
hemoglobin: measure of the functional portion of RBC, weight
hematocrit: percent of RBC in blood by volume
MVC: mean cell volume, average size of rbc
MCH: hem
what is anemia? what does this result in?
abnormall low number of circulating RBCs or low concentration of hemoglobin
results in tissue hypoxia
what two things account for half of the anemia found worldwide?
parsitic/infectious disease
what are 5 red blood cell functions?
1. transport oxygen
- transport CO2
- acid/base metabolism
- maintain viscosity/vascular tone
- plug clots in addition to platelets
what are three main things you do to increase O2 delivery by RBC?
- increase blood flow or Q (stands for blood flow)
- increase red cell mass or hemoglobin
- increase O2 extraction
if the body is trying to increase blood flow or Q in response to oxygen demand, what 2 things would you see?
1. increase cardiac output
(HR, pressure, murmers, bruits, tinnitis)
2. changes in tissue perforation
(shunt blood from skin and kidney to rain, heart, and muscle, this is why you get pale!, increases erthropoeitin)
if the body is trying to increase the red cell mass, what would you see?
what happens of the EPO is really high?
what happens to the viscosity of the blood?
Kidneys->EPO->marrow erythropoiesis->reticulocytosis and increase #RBC
this accound for growing pains
- if EPO really high can stimulated maturity outside of the BM*
- this increases viscosity of the blood*
explain what the body does in oxygen extraction to increase the oxygen profusion into the tissues? which way does the curve shift?
2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) binds to hemoglobin and decreases hgb affinity for oxygen, this causes it to be released into the tissues
“makes it harder for oxygen to stay attacked to hgb”
shifts dissociation curve to the right
what is the gold standard for anemia detection?
Red blood cell count
(difficult to do)
what is the definition of anemia according to the WHO?
hb<12.5 gm/dl
what concentration of hemoglobin are people typically symptomatic? what concentration is considered the be anemia?
anemic: 12.5 gm/dl
symptomatic: 10gm/dl
what is the first thing you should look at when addressing anemia? what percentage of these are normal in the blood? how much larger are these than regular RBC? what do you see in them that is different then regular RBC?

reticulocyte count
normal: .5-2.5% of RBC are reticulocytes (10% larger than red blood cells)
reticular network of RNA







































